Unique album by Rumpletilskin, New York hip-hop group composed by Jeranimo, Jacob "LS" Clark, Peter "RPM" Lopez and D "Sha-now" Gordon. The production is handled entirely by RPM, the DJ of the group, who gives few beats to Chyskills ("Mad MF's"), Jeranimo ("I-N-I"), "E" ("Sweet Therapy") and The Capitol LS ("Earthquake").
The group is affiliated with Leaders of the New School, also featured on their debut album, which earned them the signing of a deal with major label RCA in 1992. RPM's production is excellent, made up of excellent boom baps jazzy, with splendid samples and perfect drums, on this solid and clean musical carpet the three performers don't even miss the hooks. The songs are cheerful and the rappers deliver with a slow and flowing hardcore style, but they never really say anything in these forty minutes, their lyrics are simplistic and gray, impoverishing the music.
RPM reserves a couple of interludes, but they're both mundane and weak, just decent. The functional rapping to the rhythms ends up lowering the quality of the record, in any case hidden gem in the dusty shelves of the hip-hop basements from the point of view of production. "Attitudes" and "Is It All Right?" they are extracted as singles and end up in the charts among the rap songs, distributed by BMG, but neither of them has the best rhythms of the tape.
Highlights: "Hudz", "Mad MF's", "Theramixx".
Rating: 7/10.
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